>> This is poor design on Linux's part, since even the distant RAM is >> faster than disk. For now, we've been disabling zone_reclaim entirely. > > I haven't run into this, but we were running ubuntu 10.04 LTS. What > kernel were you running when this happened? I'd love to see a test > case on this, as it seems like a major regression if it's on newer > kernels, and we're looking at running 12.04 LTS soon on one of our > bigger machines.
Jeff Frost will have a blog up about it later; we're still collecting data. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
